Party in the Stacks
Cleaning out my mailbox, I came across a New York Times article forwarded to my from Lee S. several weeks ago about how librarians are hip now. How did such a nerdy profession become cool — aside...
View ArticlePost-travel Link Roundup
I’m still playing catch-up after returning on a red-eye yesterday morning, but here’s what’s crossing my desktop today. Penny Arcade and its Expo: Joystiq has a handy write-up on the Wil Wheaton...
View ArticleLinks: Lightsabers, Nerdcore, & More
A couple more long(ish) posts soon to come. For now, here are some links. “Hero Building”: On Gizmodo, an embedded video and some comments on “NY Jedi School Trains Lightsaber Enthusiasts (To Be Bigger...
View ArticleDigital Déjà Vu
Musician/artist/writer David Byrne recently mused on how Ikea is like a video game (link via Boing Boing). He explains that the way everything is tagged with a label, the seeming meaningfulness of...
View ArticleLinks: Geek Activism, Virtual Worlds, and the Nerd Code for Love
Lots and lots of links this week, starting with a few about people promoting geeky causes. Comics Activism in the University Library: Comixology offers the first part in a series on how one university...
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Links: Geek Shame, the Lulz, and Two Meanings for “Hardcore”
This weekend’s link drop is brought to you by Church, Jordan, Cabral, various Gawker blogs, and the letter Q. Confessions of a Sci-Fi Addict: Let’s start with this link-ful post from the Website at the...
View ArticleLinks: The State of the Geek in May, 2008
All right, here are all the links that didn’t make it to one of the “themed” posts I did recently. Please pardon me if you suggested one of these links a long, long time ago and I forgot to give you...
View ArticleSex and the City “Geeks” (and Geek Studies) in the News
If a television show turned cultural phenomenon spawns diehard fans who recite dialogue by heart, wear costumes inspired by the show and buy all the tie-in products, are these devotees nerds? If the...
View ArticleDebating Whether Geeks Control Hollywood
Things will remain a little quiet here on the blog for a bit while I take care of some things, including setup following last week’s move from Philly and some revisions on an article about games I just...
View ArticleScott Pilgrim vs. the Cultural Critique
For a movie that hasn’t made much of a splash in box office take, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World certainly seems to have people talking. The movie opened 5th in the box office last weekend. It was beaten...
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